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Today I’m going to write about a company named Ecessa. If you haven’t heard of them before, they have a long history of building networking hardware for businesses. Since the inception of the company, one of their primary goals has been to ensure reliable and resilient Internet connectivity. Continue reading “Ecessa NetFlow support in Scrutinizer”

Face it—the information technology arena is an ever-changing monster and recent news about the increase with IoT vulnerabilities is no exception. A new technology can come around all of a sudden and change how we think and do things. Don’t get me wrong; it’s exciting and it’s what our world has been built on, but it’s also a little nerve-wracking. This becomes a bigger issue in the world of security, since newer technology tends not to be completely vetted. Continue reading “Ransomware targets increase with IoT vulnerabilities”

A little while ago we posted an article on F5 IPFIX Support. I wanted to follow up on that and dig a little deeper on how to configure your F5 to send IPFIX and IEs to a collector. Remember, IEs are individual fields in an IPFIX template. Under the F5 an IPFIX template describes a single Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) event. Continue reading “F5 IPFIX Support”

Let’s talk about UDP scans and how they can be an internet threat. In today’s world, having multiple layers of Internet Threat Defense is a requirement. With Scrutinizer and the intelligence behind Flow Analytics it is easy to detect reconnaissance-style traffic patterns like UDP scans. UDP scanning is common both on the Internet and internally. A common use on the Internet is to ID servers that can be used for DrDoS (distributed reflection denial of service) attacks, as DoS works much better on UDP. Internally, it can be used to ID open ports on machines. Continue reading “Internet Threats: UDP Scans”

Face it—the information technology arena is an ever-changing monster and recent news about the increase with IoT vulnerabilities is no exception. A new technology can come around all of a sudden and change how we think and do things. Don’t get me wrong; it’s exciting and it’s what our world has been built on, but it’s also a little nerve-wracking. This becomes a bigger issue in the world of security, since newer technology tends not to be completely vetted. Continue reading “Ransomware targets increase with IoT vulnerabilities”

A good number of evaluators have been asking me what’s the best way to evaluate our free virtual Netflow collector. There is a growing trend of companies moving away from dedicated hardware to a virtualized environment. However, there are many options to create such a network. Windows has Hyper-V, which is part of the Windows Server OS, VMware has ESXi to, and KVM meet these virtualization needs. Plixer supports all three of these virtual environments with our Free virtual NetFlow collector, Scrutinizer. Installation of our solution is as simple as deploying the appropriate package to the specific hypervisor.